The Country Classic was a beautiful event this year. The weather was fantastic and the competition was terrific. The schedule was filled with exciting classes and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves.<\/p>\n
Shelley Campf<\/strong> topped the Hunter Divisions winning the Brad Laird Memorial Trophy<\/strong>that has been donated for years by Barrie Freeman<\/strong>. Barrie retired the trophy this year and Shelley was happy to be the last name on there. Costar<\/strong>, ridden by Shelley was Grand Champion<\/strong> for the high point hunter as a result of his championship in the Green Conformation<\/strong>. Costar was 3rd in both the USHJA International Hunter Derby and the WCHR Handy Hunter Classic as well.<\/p>\n The hunters were good.\u00a0 In the Small Hunter<\/strong>, Shelley rode Rendition<\/strong> to the Championship<\/strong> and Kohala<\/strong> to the Reserve Champion<\/strong> honors. Shelley and Fremont<\/strong> were Champion<\/strong> in the Large<\/strong>. Colleen Biemer<\/strong> and Night Cap<\/strong> were Champion Large\u00a0Junior 16-17<\/strong>. Greyscale<\/strong> was Reserve Champion with Shelley in the Green Conformation<\/strong> and Sara Hin<\/strong>gson and Fremont<\/strong> tied for Champion in the Adult 18-30\u00a0but ended up Reserve Champion. Encore<\/strong> and Shelley had an uncharacteristically poor showing this week but still won a schooling class. Colleen and Penny Lane<\/strong> won in the Baby Green, Shelley and Legatus<\/strong> won in the Open Hunter, and Lexie Grant<\/strong> and Rendition<\/strong> won in the Children’s.<\/p>\n The jumpers were hand picking their classes in an effort to peak at the correct time for the big classes.\u00a0 Jaimie Ackerman<\/strong> and Red Legend<\/strong> did just that topping the $3,000 Country Classic Speed<\/strong> on Saturday afternoon. Lea Snyder<\/strong> and Hakuna Matada<\/strong> were sensational in the $25,000 Grand Prix<\/strong> until and unfortunate loss of stirrup resulted in her horse bolting forward and ultimately stopping at the last jump.\u00a0 Shelley Campf<\/strong> rode London <\/strong>to a four fault score in the Grand Prix finishing 6th. Kantos<\/strong> and Madison Cameron<\/strong> were Champions in the 1.20 m and Stacy Jeter<\/strong> and Mr. Brightside<\/strong> won in the Low Adult.<\/p>\n Our equitation riders made us proud.\u00a0 Sarah Hingson<\/strong> was Champion<\/strong> in the Adult Equitation<\/strong>.\u00a0 Madison<\/strong> was Champion in the Open Equitation<\/strong> and Maggie Dennis<\/strong> was Reserve. Vivian Keller<\/strong> was Reserve Ch<\/strong>ampion in the 15 and under Equitation<\/strong>.\u00a0 Diane Laycoe<\/strong> won\u00a0an Adult Equitation<\/strong> class and Colleen<\/strong> won the USEF Talent\u00a0Search<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Country Classic was a beautiful event this year. The weather was fantastic and the competition was terrific. The schedule was filled with exciting classes and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves. Shelley Campf topped the Hunter Divisions winning the Brad Laird Memorial Trophythat has been donated for years by Barrie Freeman. Barrie retired the trophy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-show-results"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ozincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266,"href":"https:\/\/ozincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}